Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, is lowered on a rope over the edge of a cliff in Mesa Verde National Park. A man sits on the ledge above where Deric dangles and helps lower him with the rope. The rope continues up the cliff behind the man. A road,...

Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, dangles on a rope over the side of a cliff in Mesa Verde National Park. A man sits on the top ledge of the cliff and lowers Deric down with the rope. The rope continues up the ledge behind the man. A road, possibly...

Roundup Riders of the Rockies members identified left to right as John "Doc" Bumpus, Harold "Hoppy" Rice, Montie Montana, Frank "Polly" Johns, and Wayne "Sage" Kester, practice rope tricks at a camp in Grand Lake (Grand County), Colorado. The men...

The Littleton Fire Department poses with hose cart in front of the wood frame clapboard firehouse, Littleton, Colorado. The men wear light colored shirts, ties and soft peaked caps. Ed Bemis is the third from the right and C. E. Stephenson holds...

Men, women, and children in straw hats watch a man on a tightrope over Main St. in Canon City, Colorado. The rope is fixed to the brick cornice of Murry's Saloon, with its corbeled arches. Potted plants fill stone sills of arched sash windows....

View taken from above of four soldiers from the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment (re-enforced) Test Expedition, belonging to Rope One, led by Peter Gabriel, other members included Captain Albert Jackman and the photographer. They stand near two...

Two soldiers from the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment (re- enforced) practice rescuing a man from the snow using ropes. The man on the left is wearing a pith helmet and dark clothing. He is smiling and holding lightly onto a rope. The man in the...

A rancher, possibly George Green, rides a white horse and twirls a lasso in the air as he goes to rope a calf in a corral at a ranch in Gilpin County, Colorado. Another rope is already attached to the calf. A herd of Herefords stands along the...

John Justin Jr. leans against a rope "picket line" near tethered horses in Colorado. Justin wears a cowboy hat, boots, a vest and blue jeans. The horses have saddles and rope halters. Sage Kester waves his hat in the distance. Shows mountains and...

A cowboy stands on a saddled horse and performs a rope trick in an arena for Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Two of the cowboys wear woolies and cowboy hats. Spectators sit in grandstands.

Native American (Ute) man poses near his horse; he looks down and holds a rope; he wears beaded and fringed leggings and shirt, fur pelts decorated with metal discs draped over shoulders, and a feather in his hair; horse has bridle decorated with...

Women and a man sit and pose on a rope hammock. Margaret Ferguson Poley wears a pince-nez, a skirt, a printed blouse under a striped fitted jacket with puffed sleeves and lapels, and a scarf or tie around the collar. Sue J. Fr[e?]y wears wire...

Twelve Tenth Mountain Division soldiers practice evacuation techniques. One holds a rope upslope from the medic carrying a "wounded" soldier down a steep hill; the rope steadies the man with the load, which is called belaying. Trees in the...

Four Tenth Mountain Division soldiers practice rock climbing skills, including hoisting bundles with ropes. In the foreground, a soldier holds one end of a rope and a bundle is suspended above his head. Behind him, another soldier is holding a...

Members of the Roundup Riders of the Rockies stand near their saddled horses which are tethered to a rope picket line in a meadow (the site of Hessie camp) near Nederland in Boulder County, Colorado. Shows snow on mountains in the distance.

Bitterroot Jim (also known as "The Dog"), a Native American man on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, sits on a horse in front of a teepee on the reservation. He is gathering packages which are tied to his horse. He wears a plaid...

Four men in two-piece knit swim suits pose in the indoor swimming pool at Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado. On man sits on a trapeze, and another holds on to a rope from a roof joist; rings are also suspended over the water. A small dressed figure,...

Panoramic view of members of the Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Association who pose near the City Hall Building near 14th (Fourteenth) Street and Larimer Street in Denver, Colorado. The men stand in a line and hold a rope attached to a hand pumper...

Interior view of a stairway in the John Albert Ferguson house at 700 Washington Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The Italian marble staircase has a velvet rope handrail. A vase is at the top of the stairs.

A brass band sits in a horse drawn wagon in Canon City, Colorado. The 1890 Felter building built of local rough stone is behind them. The first floor storefronts have awnings and window lettering reading: "Bancroft Hardware," and "L.W. Felter." An...

A Hispanic man with a beard and a hat poses with a dog and three burros, one a foal, on a dirt street in Las Vegas (San Miguel County), New Mexico. One burro has a saddle and rope. A store front with an awning and houses are nearby.

Workmen unload pipes onto wood frames at a work site in Jefferson County, Colorado. The pipes are forty-two inch diameter reinforced concrete pipes made by the Lock Joint Company of Denver for construction of Conduit #16 of the Fraser River...

A view of an accident on the Gilpin Tramway line in Prosser Gulch in Central City (Gilpin County), Colorado. Spectators stand on an embankment above the wreck. Men work to stabilize locomotive number 3 and move it back on the tracks. A pulley and...

A view of an accident on the Gilpin Tramway line in Prosser Gulch in Central City (Gilpin County), Colorado. Spectators stand on an embankment and view the wreck. Workers help move locomotive number 3 as it is is pulled along the track by a rope...

Wayne Johnston, a member of the Roundup Riders of the Rockies, rides a bucking steer at a rodeo in Estes Park (Larimer County), Colorado. Johnston wears a tee shirt, jeans and cowboy boots. He holds onto a rope, waves his arm in the air and...

A young man sits and leans on the arm of a chair which is decorated with rope tassels, in a studio portrait. He wears a hat with a high crown and a broad silk band, a sack coat with wide lapels and a velvet collar, and a shirt with buttons and a...

A man tightens a rope around a pack mule at a camp site in Colorado. Members of a government survey party wear suspenders or sack coats, boots and hats. Covered wagons, mules and canvas tents are in a valley.

Photograph of three unidentified female students from South High School in Denver, Colorado jumping rope. A male student lays on the ground in front of them, filming them as part of a motion picture project.